A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Authentication
Working Group of the IETF.
Title : HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)
Author(s) : Stephen Farrell
Paul Hoffman
Michael Thomas
Filename : draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-00.txt
Pages : 23
Date : 2013-05-14
Abstract:
HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA) is a design for an HTTP
authentication method with credentials that are not vulnerable to
phishing attacks, and that does not require a server-side password
database. The design can also be used in Javascript-based
authentication embedded in HTML. HOBA is an alternative to HTTP
authentication schemes that require passwords with all the negative
attributes that come with password-based systems. HOBA can be
integrated with account management and other applications running
over HTTP and supports portability, so a user can associate more than
one device or origin-bound key with the same service. We also
describe a way in which the HOBA design can be used from a Javascript
web client. When deployed, HOBA will be a drop-in replacement for
password-based HTTP authentication or JavaScript authentication.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-00
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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